The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803; explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commericial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the beginning of the nineteenth century; [Vol. 1, no. 2]

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member of this fleet who may be holding the same;
nor shall any heir of the above-named persons, at any
time whatsoever, be obliged to make restitution
thereof, either legally or as a matter of conscience.
Likewise, in conformity with the said compact, I
declare to be null and void, and of no effect or force,
all right which they may have, royal, personal, or
based upon any other title or right which may be
named, designated, or specified, or which his majesty King Don Felipe claims to have acquired,
through the compact made between the very Catholic and Christian sovereigns, King Don Joan the
Second of Portugal, and Don Fernando of Castella
(may they rest in glory), regarding the division of
the conquest and discovery of the world, conceded
by the holy fathers, in the commerce and conquest
of Maluco and all its lands and seas which shall be
found, perceived, or discovered by ships in that
whole region west of Nova Spanha, as determined by
an imaginary line from north to south through the
islands of Las Velas [Ladrones]; and those rights
I declare null and void from the day on which the
said Miguel Lopez de Leguazpi passed to the west
of the said line with his fleet. And likewise I declare that, inasmuch as this fleet contains more soldiers than men of letters, all summons, declaration,
and protestation befitting the right and justice of
the king, our lord, and of his descendants and kingdoms, shall be held as made and truly and completely declared, demanded, summoned, alleged, and protested, without any lack or failure, whatsoever. And
neither his royal majesty, nor any or all successors
to the kingdom of Castella shall have the right to
require or summon the Portuguese to deliver to them